Going For Gold
The skies are stubbornly gray here in upstate New York, and the ground is covered with a blanket of snow. I've started adding gold foliaged conifers to my garden to combat this gloomy scenario, and against my better judgement, my fondness for Chamaecyparis, (commonly known as false cypress), led me to add several. I was a little worried that the dry soil in my garden might be too extreme for them and I was right. Some of them have ended up looking a little threadbare like this poor thing.